{"id":27,"date":"2006-08-11T14:03:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-11T23:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/?p=27"},"modified":"2007-01-23T13:21:47","modified_gmt":"2007-01-23T22:21:47","slug":"patch-patch-patch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/11\/patch-patch-patch\/","title":{"rendered":"Patch! Patch! Patch!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As much as this should be ingrained in our computing habits, this still needs to be said: Apply patches when they come out!<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/technet\/security\/bulletin\/ms06-040.mspx\">Microsoft Security Bulletin MS06-040<\/a> came out on the 8th, and a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metasploit.com\/\" rel=\"tag\">MetaSploit<\/a> module to exploit the flaw came shortly after. Tech e-zine eWeek <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eweek.com\/article2\/0,1895,2002142,00.asp\">reported<\/a> that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.immunitysec.com\/\">Immunity<\/a>  and  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coresecurity.com\/\">Core Security Technologies<\/a> had both released what they deemed &#8220;reliable exploits&#8221; for the flaw and declared it wormable on all Windows versions.<\/p>\n<p>Dave Aitel, CEO of Immunity said in an interview with eWeek &#8220;A worm is coming. This bug is just too easy to exploit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is a vulnerability that would allow for remote takeover of an unpatched Windows machine. It will be interesting to see how widespread the damage is when (not if) a worm is released.<\/p>\n<p>Patches are available from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/technet\/security\/bulletin\/ms06-040.mspx\">bulletin<\/a> (follow the links) or from Windows Update.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As much as this should be ingrained in our computing habits, this still needs to be said: Apply patches when they come out! The Microsoft Security Bulletin MS06-040 came out on the 8th, and a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,20],"tags":[147,157],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security","category-windows","tag-security","tag-windows"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pxT7i-r","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}